Personal Life
Bragg married his first wife, Marie-Elisabeth Roche, in 1961, and they had one child, a daughter. Ten years later she killed herself. He did not know that his wife had a history of suicide attempts. "I could have done things which helped and I did things which harmed", he told The Guardian in 1998. "So yes, I feel guilt, I feel remorse."
Bragg's second wife, Catherine Mary Haste, whom he married in 1973, is also a television producer and writer, having, among other things, edited the 2007 memoir of Clarissa Eden, widow of Sir Anthony Eden, and collaborated with Cherie Booth, wife of Tony Blair, on a 2004 book about the wives of British Prime Ministers. They have a son and a daughter.
Bragg has publicly discussed two nervous breakdowns that happened in his life, one in his teens, and another in his 30s.
A friend of Tony Blair, the former Labour Prime Minister, in 1998 Bragg was named in a list of the largest private financial donors to the Labour Party.
He is a supporter of Arsenal F.C. and Carlisle United (London Branch Hon President)
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